Page 57 - Imperience Beckons

on the concept of 'Anadi Karma' (Original Action) propounded by several systems of Vedanta. God had his own purposes of creation, but then what made us jump into it, is a question. That is the reason for our fall. What is that reason except our interest in a display? Then it is our duty to get back to Him. Why did we wait all these ages? Thousands of years, thousands of lives we have gone through, in the display forgetting our primary duty to get back. So we should note, fixing our attention on Ultimate as our Goal is not a choice. When we don't do it we are not discharging one of our primary duties that is expected of us by Divinity and is the ultimate good to ourselves. Duty is for one's own good and is a concept that is to be understood well. If we understand the seriousness of it, we will appreciate why Revered Babuji again and again brings this concept of the time before creation. We may understand why at every stage, he brought the concept of creation. If we go through His books we see on every possible occasion He impresses upon it. He reverts to the subject very often, only to make us understand or remember our Homeland as He puts it, to be with Him.
Our duty is to be with Him. Not to be elsewhere. Not to discharge a few functions that are entrusted to us by the society. Not to discharge certain functions our family expects of us. Not to discharge certain functions which will improve our prestige in society. None of these social goods, answer the call deep within.
This has an implication on the "problem of good". We feel compelled, very often to alter existing circumstances to what we may consider as 'correct' or "good" and in the process find fault with others, their behaviour, their conduct etc. When someone is not behaving in the family/social/personal life according to established ways and manners, we tend to ask how is it that he is in the company of the Master? When someone else seems to be a person without good character as judged by us we ask how is he in the system of spirituality? There is a case, long back at Tirupati, a Professor of the University there, refused to sit along with another Professor of the University whom he considered as basically unspiritual, irreligious etc; He said "how can I sit by his side, his very sight makes me abhor him". My father's answer was, "do you come for his sake or are you coming for Divinity's sake? Are you coming for meditation to realise your true nature or are you going to bother about him". But he never understood. He never understood his duty. We always tend to evaluate others, though we have no business doing that. Every person has a right of freedom to live according to his desire and will. If such living is not according to established social and legal norms there are institutions to attend to that problem. It shall be none of our